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321: Dick Beardsley - I Tell You What!

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Fitness, Sports, Health & Fitness, Running

4.7556 Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Oh, don’t cha know? Carrie welcomes Dick Beardsley back to the show! The two tried and true Minesotans talk about how Dick is doing, what he is up to now, running on his knee replacements, his memories of the Boston Marathon, and so much more!

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gooder hi i'm olympian carrie tullifson and welcome to the C-Tolly Run podcast. Today I'm super excited to have Minnesota's very own Dick Beardsley. Dick is an author, a motivational speaker, a fisherman, and one of the most known runners of all time. When Dick was competing, he won the London Marathon. He was a two-time winner

1:11.8

of the Grandma's Marathon here in Minnesota, and he's had one of the most famous races of all time

1:16.5

in the 1982 Boston Marathon, where he was second place. In this episode, we talk all about how Dick's

1:22.2

doing, what he's up to now, running on his knee replacements. And since we're heading to Boston

1:27.2

in just over a week

1:28.2

for the 127th running of the Boston Marathon, Dick gives us all of the inside scoop. So let's get after it.

1:38.9

All right, Dick, thanks so much for coming on the show. Listen, it has been like six years or something since you and I did that walk up at Grandma's Marathon when we recorded.

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I remember that. In fact, I was going through a foot infection at that point. That's why I think I had to walk and not run it. I end up having to have surgery like a week later and almost lost three toes on my foot.

2:00.0

Listen, that was a four mile walk.

2:02.5

How did you do that? You know, back then, well, I don't know, you just, you just kind of,

2:08.9

back like in my elite running days, I was, you know, I could put the pain behind me and you just

2:14.3

deal with it later. So you, on. You still could do that.

2:18.7

Yeah, not as well as I used to be able to do it, but a little bit still.

2:22.6

Oh my goodness.

2:23.0

Okay, so tell us, you still run every day at like 4 a.m.?

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